Parrot is a set of tools that allow you to create HTTP mocks and organize them into scenarios in order to develop your app against different sets of data. We have implemented all of Parrot's functionality in JavaScript, but scenarios are a general specification that can be implemented in any language.

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🤹‍ Usage

Let's walk through a common development workflow using Parrot.

Define your scenarios

import { describe, it, get, post, graphql } from 'parrot-friendly';
import casual from 'casual'; // for generating fake data
import schema from './schema'; // our GraphQL schema

const scenarios = describe('Ship Log', () => {
  it('has a ship log', () => {
    // respond with a mock JSON file and add a delay
    get('/ship_log')
      .response(require('./mocks/shipLog.json'))
      .delay(1200);

    // respond with the request body that was sent
    post('/ship_log').response(req => req.body);
  });

  it('has a random ship log', () => {
    // respond with random data generated by casual
    get('/ship_log').response(() => [
      {
        port: casual.city,
        captain: casual.full_name,
      },
    ]);
  });

  it('has a server error', () => {
    // respond with a 500 status
    get('/ship_log').status(500);
  });

  it('has a ship log from GraphQL', () => {
    // respond to GraphQL queries
    graphql('/graphql', schema, () => ({
      ShipLog: () => require('./mocks/shipLog.json'),
    }));
  });
});

export default scenarios;

More information about writing scenarios can be found in the scenarios documentation.

Add them to your server

import express from 'express';
import parrot from 'parrot-middleware';
import scenarios from './scenarios';

const app = express();
app.use(parrot(scenarios));
app.listen(3000);

Develop with Parrot's devtools

Example API requests

Fetch current scenario.

$ curl 'http://localhost:3002/parrot/scenario'

Fetch all scenarios.

$ curl 'http://localhost:3002/parrot/scenarios'

Setting parrot to a new scenario.

$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{ "scenario": "[scenario name here]" }'  'http://localhost:3002/parrot/scenario'

📦 Packages

Parrot is divided into several packages that can be used together depending on your use case.

Name	Description
parrot-core	Core Parrot functionality that can be extended to new use cases
parrot-devtools	Devtools that allow you to switch between Parrot scenarios
parrot-fetch	Fetch mocking implementation of Parrot
parrot-friendly	Helper library to write your scenarios in BDD style
parrot-graphql	Helper library to add GraphQL mocks to your scenarios
parrot-middleware	Express middleware implementation of Parrot
parrot-server	CLI to get a parrot server up and running

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🗝️ License

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🗣️ Code of Conduct

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